Mr. Obama says only capping and putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions can accomplish three fundamental goals: lessening America's dependence on oil, turning renewable alternatives into viable sources of energy and jobs, and curbing global warming.
Some Eastern European members, including Poland and Bulgaria, argued that Western Europe's more advanced economies ought to do more to achieve the union's goals, thereby lessening the burden on poorer countries.
Making deeper cuts immediately (2020) rather than as a next step in the Paris process (waiting until 2030) would lower the carbon prices needed to achieve long-term goals, and lessen the need for unproven options to achieve zero or negative emissions after 2050.
Should the U.S. economy buckle further, and the stock market is taken down with it, Trump might be more inclined to do end the trade war despite his team's long-term goals to lessen China's role in the U.S. corporate supply chain.
What has made the World Bank almost uniquely successful over the last half-century has been its sustained focus on the most important humanitarian goal: lessening poverty.
The unstated goal: lessen Russian control of the nuclear power market in Eastern Europe, even if that does not translate into an immediate market share for Westinghouse.
In the end, Damien can't accept the Anglo-Irish compromise because he's committed acts, such as killing the boy, that would become meaningless if he lessened the absoluteness of his goals.
The fact that lower temperatures are incorporated into thermal goals does not lessen the need for non-invasive thermometry or more sophisticated hyperthermia delivery systems, however.
The Program has two goals: (1) to lessen the degree to which financing the cost of a legal education limits career options, and (2) to encourage graduates to choose public interest careers.
The expense may be justified if the intervention can be shown to achieve certain goals such as lessening the 'bed blocker' effect and reducing the demand for residential aged care facilities, even if health gains are not consistently realised.
Technical efforts to insure conformity may be hindered by conflicting goals, unintended consequences, displacement, lessened equity, complacency, neutralization, invalidity, escalation, system overload, a negative image of personal dignity, and the danger of the means determining or becoming ends.
